After Divorce, I Returned as the Army's Queen novel Chapter 6

For a moment, Curtis' heart clenched, sending a sharp pain through him.

"What's wrong?" As if sensing his odd behavior, Sonya spoke up softly from the safety of his arms.

"N-Nothing," he replied, pursing his dry lips.

He told himself he must have imagined it. Chloe couldn't possibly have meant it when she'd mouthed the words "I'm done with you".

After a few more rounds, the gunfire ceased, and the Steele family's bodyguards stormed the restaurant. They surrounded the middle-aged man, who was still holding his gun, aiming squarely at Brian.

It was a tense standoff between them.

"My friend lost everything when the Steeles drove his business to bankruptcy, Brian! Tonight you're going to pay with your life!" shouted the man, Chad Gunness, his voice shaking with hatred.

"Oh, really?" Brian calmly responded. Even with a gun pointed at his chest, his handsome face didn't show so much as a flicker of emotion as he slowly walked toward Chad.

"Plenty of people want me dead. What makes you think you'll be the one to kill me?"

Caught off guard by Brian walking toward him, Chad panicked and pulled the trigger again, just as two of the bodyguards tackled him from behind and pinned him to the ground.

The shot went wide and grazed past Brian's side. He didn't even flinch, as if whether he got shot or not didn't matter at all.

"Let me go!" Chad yelled, struggling against the bodyguards.

A guard retrieved the gun and respectfully presented it to Brian. "Mr. Steele, the weapon."

Brian casually took it, fiddled with it, then pressed the muzzle against Chad's temple.

"W-What are you doing?" Chad stammered, trembling.

"Since you had the guts to try to kill me, didn't you think of the consequences?" Brian's voice was icy and calm as his fingers slowly closed around the trigger.

The sound of the gun cocking echoed in the silent room, eliciting gasps from the onlookers.

Chad paled with terror. "Y-You wouldn't dare! We're in public… You'll go to jail for murder!"

"Why don't we find out? Though unfortunately, you won't be around to see the result," Brian replied indifferently, as if Chad was just an insignificant man.

Just then, a figure lunged at Brian and knocked him to the ground, stopping him from pulling the trigger.

No one had seen it coming, and not even the Steeles' bodyguards had noticed anyone sneaking up to Brian's side.

Lena's mouth hung open as she stared in shock.

When did Chloe move? And was she insane that she went and tackled Brian—and that too, while he was armed?

Curtis and his friends were equally stunned.

A mocking gleam flashed in Sonya's eyes. It seemed Chloe was more foolish than she'd thought, after all. Did Chloe really think this stunt would win her points? Crossing Brian would only make Curtis hate her more.

"What do you think you're doing?" Brian's voice cut through the chaos, a rare ripple of surprise passing through his cold eyes.

Chloe pressed down on his wrist, forcing him to move the gun away. "You can't kill him."

Brian asked coldly, "Do you know this man?"

"No."

"Why are you helping him then?"

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